Brainstorming is a non-judgmental group creative process in which group members are encouraged to give voice to any ideas they personally consider relevant to the group exercise. In a face-to-face meeting, a brainstorming facilitator will usually stand in front of a big piece of paper and elicit ideas from the participants in the room. An online version of this process can be created by setting up a wiki for the entire class or for smaller student groups and asking people to submit ideas around a brainstorming topic. People can add ideas as they occur and link to other pages for elaboration.
IDEAS Bio/Ess: Chemicals in Westlake Eutrophication of Lakes Chem: pH of Westlake Chemicals in the lake (nitrate and ammonia) Buffering Capacity of West Lake Physics: Density of Westlake/ how polluted it Refraction index Pros: Simple to do experiments All we would need to do would be colled water samples of westlake and return to school
FINAL EXPERIMENTS
Biology/ESS : Eutrophication of Westlake
Aim: To determine amount of Phosphrous, Nitrogen, and Carbon in Westlake and how it would increase/decrease eutrophication of westlake
Chemistry (Ayaki + Kelly): Buffering Capacity of Westlake
Aim: To determine the buffering capacity of Westlake and how well it will accept a change in pH
Physics: Refractive index of Westlake
Aim: To determine how light is affected when passing through westlake water vs. clean water
Linking concept: How the eutrophication (N, P, and K chemicals in westlake) could affect the refractive index and how the chemicals (N,P, and K) play a role in the buffereing capacity of the lake.
Brainstorming is a non-judgmental group creative process in which group members are encouraged to give voice to any ideas they personally consider relevant to the group exercise. In a face-to-face meeting, a brainstorming facilitator will usually stand in front of a big piece of paper and elicit ideas from the participants in the room. An online version of this process can be created by setting up a wiki for the entire class or for smaller student groups and asking people to submit ideas around a brainstorming topic. People can add ideas as they occur and link to other pages for elaboration.
Background Info. on Ho Tay:
http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/asi/asi-62.html
http://all-science-fair-projects.com/category0.html
Lots of science experiements on this site, could be useful for ideas
IDEAS
Bio/Ess: Chemicals in Westlake
Eutrophication of Lakes
Chem: pH of Westlake
Chemicals in the lake (nitrate and ammonia)
Buffering Capacity of West Lake
Physics: Density of Westlake/ how polluted it
Refraction index
Pros: Simple to do experiments
All we would need to do would be colled water samples of westlake and return to school
FINAL EXPERIMENTS
Biology/ESS : Eutrophication of Westlake
Aim: To determine amount of Phosphrous, Nitrogen, and Carbon in Westlake and how it would increase/decrease eutrophication of westlake
Chemistry (Ayaki + Kelly): Buffering Capacity of Westlake
Aim: To determine the buffering capacity of Westlake and how well it will accept a change in pH
Physics: Refractive index of Westlake
Aim: To determine how light is affected when passing through westlake water vs. clean water
Linking concept: How the eutrophication (N, P, and K chemicals in westlake) could affect the refractive index and how the chemicals (N,P, and K) play a role in the buffereing capacity of the lake.